ENGLISH TEACHING STRATEGIES TO QUIET A NOISY CLASSROOM
Keywords:
Classroom management, clap once, clap twice, bonus items, non-verbal cues, game-based learning;Abstract
While it is not ideal to mute the entire class for 45 minutes at a time for them to listen, every teacher needs to silence a noisy classroom at some point. Recently, when we saw Todd Finleys offer some great ideas on edutopia, we had to offer some tricks we learned. And remember, most of the things that work actually have to do with your personality. Classroom management is not strength for me because we are always worried about being a bad teacher and tend to use learning models based on open-ended learning, student self-direction, and inquiry and project-based learning.
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